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You're Wrong About - Summer Book Club: “The Satan Seller” (The Debunking!)
This week we debunk Mike Warnke right out of his cabin and into the lake, using Cornerstone Magazine’s long overdue exposé as our guide. Digressions include "Star Trek," a classic New Yorker cover and Ariana Grande. We definitively conclude that the Bible endorses cancel culture.
This episode, we’re sorry to say, includes detailed descriptions of domestic abuse.
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You're Wrong About - Summer Book Club: “The Satan Seller” (Part 3)
We finish our San Bernardino joyride through Mike Warnke’s 1972 “memoir” with a hex, a horrible crime and a Satanic celebrity cameo. Digressions include digressions include Billie Eilish, wicker men and today’s completely new and not at all throwback panic over critical race theory.
This episode includes a wildly fake but nonetheless disturbing description of a sexual assault.
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You're Wrong About - Cancel Culture
Mike and Sarah have big feelings about an enduring debate. Digressions include “Carrie,” party planning etiquette and Whole Foods cafeterias. Sarah’s sound quality changes midway through because she moves from a McDonald’s parking lot to a Hardee’s parking lot.
Special thanks to Meredith Clark and Allissa Richardson for helping us with the history section of this episode!
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- Natalie Wynn's "Canceling"
- Drag Them: A brief etymology of so-called “cancel culture”
- The Long and Tortured History of Cancel Culture
- The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword
- Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy
- Tales From the Teenage Cancel Culture
- Generational Cycles in American Politics, 1952–2016
- It’s Not Callout Culture. It’s Accountability.
- An Incomplete (but growing) History of Harassment Campaigns since 2003
- The State of Online Harassment
- “Did We Create This Monster?” How Twitter Turned Toxic
- Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement
You're Wrong About - The Chicks vs. The Iraq War
Mike tells Sarah about an impending conflict, a dissident singer and America's first internet-enabled cancellation. Digressions include "Freedom Fries" and 1990s record company shenanigans. The co-hosts harmonize for the first time; Mike struggles not to call the Chicks by their former name.
Content note: This episode includes misogynistic, racist and fatphobic language.
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- The Chicks' "Ready to Run" video
- Karen Pittelman's "Another Country"
- James Dickerson’s “Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage”
- Elites, Masses, and Media
- Too Famous to Protest: Far-Right Online Community Bonding Over Collective Desecration of Colin Kaepernick, Fame, and Celebrity Activism
- Blacklists: The Dixie Chicks Controversy
- Chicks in the Wilderness
- Chicks In the Line of Fire
- The Dixie Chicks Were Cancelled For Criticizing The President. Now, They’re Heroes.
- We’re Changing The Way We Do Business: A Critical Analysis Of The Dixie Chicks And The Country Music Industry
- The Country Connection: Country Music, 9/11, and the War on Terrorism
- Free Expression After September 11th: An Online Index
- Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America
- Exploring Iraq War News Coverage and a New Form of Censorship
- The LSE's analysis of the Freedom Fries controversy
- Destroying The Dixie Chicks – Ten Years After
- AOC’s Anti-Fans
- Racial Profiling And The War On Terror: Changing Trends And Perspectives
- Man Eats Dogs: The Hot Dog Stands of Chicago
You're Wrong About - “Political Correctness”
Mike tells Sarah how liberal magazines turned a "kids these days" moral panic into a national crisis. Digressions include Law & Order, Dave Foley and swimming pool etiquette. This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault, mass shootings and suicide.
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- John Wilson’s The Myth of Political Correctness
- Jon Weiner's Historians in Trouble
- Neil Gross’s Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
- Political Correctness: How The Right Invented A Phantom Enemy
- The Fraying Of America
- The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
- Are You Telling Me That I'm Politically Correct?
- Are You Politically Correct?
- The Rising Hegemony of the Politically Correct
- There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence
You're Wrong About - Vanessa Williams Part 2: Saving The Best For Last
Special guest Cassie da Costa tells Mike and Sarah how Vanessa fell from grace and picked herself back up. Digressions include Stephen Sondheim, Rush Limbaugh and Joan Rivers. The tyranny of abs is discussed at length.
Here's Cassie's episode of You Must Remember This and her website!
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You're Wrong About - Bonus: Dr. Oz
Mike reached new levels of rantiness on his other show and we wanted to make sure all our beloved debunkmates knew. PLUS: A special announcement!
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You're Wrong About - Vanessa Williams Part 1: Becoming Miss America
Mike tells Sarah how a 20-year-old singer, actress and French horn player became Miss America with less than six months of practice. Digressions include Ted Bundy, Stephen King’s “It” and a bonus debunking of the "bra-burning feminist" trope. We're sorry to say that this episode includes a description of child sexual abuse.
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- Sarah's Miss America piece!
- Vanessa and Helen’s memoir, “You Have No Idea”
- Margot Mifflin’s “Looking for Miss America”
- Vanessa Williams, Whitney Houston and Hollywood’s Misogynoir Problem
- Vanessa Williams: A Beauty Queen’s Crown of Thorns
- Miss America--The Inside Story
- First Black Miss America Finds Unforeseen Issues
- Ain’t I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
- Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant
- 'A Felony Just to Own': The Sleazy Story Behind Penthouse’s Most Controversial Issue
- There She Goes, Miss America
- Most Famous Miss America In History
- 1989 People magazine article
- In Black and White
- Putting on a Happy Face
You're Wrong About - Shannon Faulkner & Sex Discrimination at The Citadel
Mike tells Sarah how a troll-ish experiment turned a South Carolina teenager into one of the most maligned women of the 1990s. Digressions include Sally Ride, Anne Hathaway and, as usual, "Newsies." Mike struggles with the word "infirmary" throughout.
The pictures of Shannon we discuss in this episode are here.
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- Catherine Manegold's "In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel, and a Changing America"
- Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”
- Marching In Step: The Citadel And Post World War II America
- A Judicial Blow for "Jane Crowism" at The Citadel in Faulkner v. Jones
- The Citadel's Lone Wolf, Shannon Faulkner
- Surviving the Company of Men
- Shannon Faulkner and The Citadel: The Effects of Using Litigation as an Instrument of Social Reform
- Saving The Males: The Sociological Implications of the Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel (since we recorded this episode we've learned that the author of this piece has been accused of sexual harassment. Apologies for not mentioning it on the show!)
- Single-Sex Education: New Perspectives and Evidence on a Continuing Controversy